Westword - Of Meth and Men - Update

Big kudos out to Bob Dorshimer and Rod Rushing on all of the excellent work that they are doing at the Council.

• By Luke Turf -- In the gay bars, on-line at the “party and plays,” and in the bathhouses where meth-fueled sex runs rampant, “Tina” is still kicking a lot of ass. But gay men in Denver are preparing for the fight of their lives.

Thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health, the Mile High Meth Project is official through December. Some of that money is supporting a weekly Matrix group meeting, where gay men addicted to meth meet for two hours in a cognitive behavioral group process that’s more sbout educating users to the dangers of meth than it is about therapy.

The first week’s discussion focused on how the drug sucks up time. Rod Rushing, a counselor at the Council, a non-profit dedicated to fighting substance abuse, explained that 24 to 36 hours are involved in the process of getting high with meth. That includes getting the drug, prepping it and smoking it, staying high for hours and then spending hours more coming down before you try to find more meth.

Read the update here